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- Greg Bishop, President
- Bishop+ Associates
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- Problems, Factors & Principles
- Improving Trauma Medical Staff Value
- Cost-Effective Trauma Physician Support
- Arriving At Fair Trauma Physician Compensation
- Specialty Issues & Market Norms
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- Problematic Physician Structures
- Multiple Contributing Factors
- Principles For Proceeding
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- Fragile, Complex Structures
- Serious Shortages, Few In Pipeline
- Costs, Closures, Weak & Unstable Structures
- Balkans of Hospital/Physician Relations
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- Increasing Burden of Uninsured Patients
- Incompatibility with Private Practice
- Undesirable Lifestyle Due to Trauma Call;
- Reductions in Resident Support
- Outpatient Surgery/Specialty Hospital Trends
- Increasing Physician Sub-Specialization
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- Malpractice Market Turmoil
- Physician Payment Penalizes Trauma
- Managed Care Escapes Paying its Share
- Demise of Community ED Call Panels
- EMTALA Changes Encourage Dumping
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- Value, Not Cost Is Key Issue
- Strengthen Structure For Decades
- Pursue Opportunities For Ideal Solutions
- Leadership Is Essential
- Patient Care Is A Core Physician Value
- Impact On Hospital Physician Relations
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- Quality of Care; Responsiveness
- Maintaining Verification Status
- QA, CME, Protocols
- Cost effectiveness; Reduced LOS
- Community Outreach & Injury Prevention
- Public Advocate for Optimal Trauma Care
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- Surgical Critical Care Program
- Ortho & Neuro Centers of Excellence
- Orthopedic Hospitalist Model
- Hospital/Physician Relations
- ED/OR/ICU Issues
- Trauma Center Halo Effect
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- Effective Structure
- Hospital Support
- Optimal Franchise
- Trauma Physician Compensation
- Dealing With Leverage
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- Strong Trauma Medical Leadership
- Strong Trauma Service
- Make Trauma Call Less Burdensome
- Only Call in Specialty When Needed
- Have Patient Ready When Specialist Arrives
- Don’t Make Specialists Wait for Diagnostic Results
- Implement Tiered Call System; Facial Fracture Panels
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- OR Block Time
- ED Throughput
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Other
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- Trauma/SICU/Surgery
- Hospital Based Orthopedic Program
- Establishment of Centers of Excellence
- Halo Effect for both Physicians and Hospital
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- Trauma Medical Director Compensation
- Payment on Uninsured Patients
- Call Stipends; In-house call versus on-call
- Response Fees/Complex Schemes
- Consolidated Trauma Physician Billing Support
- Net Annual Hospital Cost (NAHC)
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- Balkans Revisited
- Stark Provides Constraint
- Do Not Form A Cartel
- Compliance Is A Serious Issue
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- Key Payment Factors
- Employment vs. Contracting
- Data and Market Norms
- Process is Key
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- Lack of Residency
- Volume of Uninsured
- Role versus Value Provided
- In-House Call versus On-Call
- Trauma Volume +/-
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- Contract With Group For Service/Employment Of Trauma Specialist
- Hospital Employment of Surgeons
- Contract with Individual Surgeons
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- Data Sources
- Comparison to Salary Data
- Specialty Outliers
- Payment on Uninsured
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- Balkans Revisited
- Stark Provides Constraint
- Do Not Form A Cartel
- Compliance Is A Serious Issue
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- Do Not Ignore Requests
- Effective Hospital Leadership
- Benchmark Trauma Financial Performance
- Solicit Specialty Input
- Address Non-Financial Issues
- Define Fair Level of Compensation
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- Trauma Surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Plastic Surgery
- Low Volume Specialties
- Hospital Based Specialties
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- Key Issues:
- Core of Trauma Center
- Highest impact specialty
- Frontline and patient care manager roles
- Franchise Value
- Market Norms
- Most Trauma Surgeons within Community Hospitals Receive Hospital
Support
- In-House Call cost per day
- On-Call cost per day
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- Key Issues:
- High impact specialty due to shortage
- Quick response time to surgery required
- Relatively small professional fee franchise
- Relatively poor payer mix
- Market Norms
- About 40% of Neurosurgeons In Community Hospitals Receive Support
- On-Call cost per day
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- Key Issues:
- High volume trauma specialty
- Sub-specialization making surgeons uncomfortable with trauma
- Need To Reduce Number of Surgeons Taking Trauma Call
- Large professional fee
franchise
- Market Norms
- 30% Orthopedic Surgeons In Community Hospitals Receive Hospital
Support
- On-Call cost per day
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- Key Issues:
- Small volume specialty; ED call issues
- Call structure is critical for this specialty
- Declining number of surgeons taking call
- High paying, busy private practices (Cosmetic Surgery)
- Market Norms
- 10-15% Plastic Surgeons In Community Hospitals Receive Hospital
Support
- On-Call cost per day
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- Key Issues:
- Focus on Trauma Service making their life easier
- Can be most difficult issue
- Combined with ED call issues
- Market Norms
- Few are Compensated in Community Hospital Setting
- No Real Market Norms
- Payment on Uninsured Patients
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- Trauma is Part of Their Hospital Franchise
- Few Payment Examples
- In house Anesthesia is exception
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- The emerging Hospitalist Model
- Carved out Trauma Physician Billing
- Trauma Specific CPT Codes and RVU’s
- Unfallkrankenhaus Lorenz Bohler
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